Charles-Antoine Duflot was born in 1986 in St. Quentin/France and has won numerous prizes since 1999, including first prizes at the U.F.A.M. Competition in Paris, the 2009 International J&A Beare Solo Bach Competition in London, the 2010 International Beethoven Competition in Hradec-nad-Moravici and the 2011 Possehl Music Prize in Lübeck. In May 2013 he won first prize at the violoncello competition „Ton und Erklärung – Werkvermittlung in Musik und Wort“ (Tone and Explanation – Work Mediation in Music and Words) in Hanover. The present recording, made in cooperation with the Cultural Society of the German Economy in the Confederation of German Industry (BDI) and NDR Kultur, is the result of that prize.